What is Your Profession?

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 22 Oct 2008 19:45

orald wrote:prostitution ... yes, I have considered it, but I just can't.

I know you can't. I've seen your pix, remember.

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 22 Oct 2008 19:50

Frippery, I say. That's the key. It worked wonders for SC

orald · Post by **orald** » 23 Oct 2008 04:52

No, I uh, meant prostitution of the...other kind. I don't have the "macho" looks for what Quagmire was suggesting.

And yes, Chig, I'm sure you're already collecting your pennies together in case I said yes.

You're like the classic old perv.

But enough about that, I also said I've considered it and it's not for me.

Robbery on the other hand...

Tleilax Master B · Post by **Tleilax Master B** » 23 Oct 2008 08:51

orald wrote:And when I "grow up", I want to be like TMB! Only maybe with some more field work(yea, I bet it's actually really dull work).
Either that or something biology related.

I did fieldwork for years before I got this job. And it was never boring. It was usually a blast. Especially surveys, where you get to walk the landscape looking for sites, usually covering 8 miles or so a day. I used to get to go to places that the general public had not set foot on for some 80 to 100 years and find surface sites that were just pristine.

Prostitution makes more money though; stick to that

Post by **Freakzilla** » 23 Oct 2008 08:59

I think I'm going to give it all up, move to Canada and start a pot farm.

inhuien · Post by **inhuien** » 23 Oct 2008 09:51

^^^You need QC?

Post by **Freakzilla** » 23 Oct 2008 09:53

Sure, I'm just dreaming anyway.

A Thing of Eternity · Post by **A Thing of Eternity** » 23 Oct 2008 12:14

Freakzilla wrote:I think I'm going to give it all up, move to Canada and start a pot farm.

The people right next door to where I live just got busted for that. They had a grow up in their basement, pretty cool setup actually - their basement extended under their back lawn and there were skylights in the surface of the lawn.

orald · Post by **orald** » 23 Oct 2008 15:58

Fuck the pay, if I can live by it, I want to have a job I like doing, and I've always been fascinated by archeology/anthropology/planteology(sp?) and the likes.

Post by **Freakzilla** » 23 Oct 2008 16:04

orald wrote:...planteology(sp?)...

Paleobotany?

Tleilax Master B · Post by **Tleilax Master B** » 23 Oct 2008 16:39

He probably meant paleontology--studying fossils. I can't tell you how many times people ask me if I dig up dinosaurs. I usually fuck with them and say things like "No I study past human remains; like the tools they left behind when they were hunting dinosaurs"

A Thing of Eternity · Post by **A Thing of Eternity** » 23 Oct 2008 16:43

Tleilax Master B wrote:He probably meant paleontology--studying fossils. I can't tell you how many times people ask me if I dig up dinosaurs. I usually fuck with them and say things like "No I study past human remains; like the tools they left behind when they were hunting dinosaurs"

My girl is taking a course on Physical Anthropology (human evolution) right now. It looks really cool, I might try and take the same course next semester. It's almost like "genesis" for non-religious people. I always wanted to be an Archeologist when I was a kid.

Tleilax Master B · Post by **Tleilax Master B** » 23 Oct 2008 17:05

A Thing of Eternity wrote:
Tleilax Master B wrote:He probably meant paleontology--studying fossils. I can't tell you how many times people ask me if I dig up dinosaurs. I usually fuck with them and say things like "No I study past human remains; like the tools they left behind when they were hunting dinosaurs"
My girl is taking a course on Physical Anthropology (human evolution) right now. It looks really cool, I might try and take the same course next semester. It's almost like "genesis" for non-religious people. I always wanted to be an Archeologist when I was a kid.

Its a cool job, I must admit. I really enjoyed the Physical Anthro classes I took. I ended up specializing at one point in Human Osteology and Zooarchaeology--but man, you can only analyze so many bones before it becomes mind numbing. I worked as a consultant doing a lot of forensic anthropolgy and that was pretty fun also.

One of the people I worked with a lot who was really into forensic anthro ended up getting a job in Juarez, Mexico near where I live. Her job was to take cadavers and de-flesh them with filleting knives and clean the bones for skeletal specimens. Man, she offered me a job but that was just a little too grisly for my likings. I like my bones sans flesh already

Secher_Nbiw · Post by **Secher_Nbiw** » 24 Oct 2008 03:27

heh, so basically we're all closet archeologists then? it's funny, i wanted to be one when i was a kid, still do actually!!!

best one i heard was my dad and his best mate, when they were in 6th form, all they wanted to be were archeologists too, but we all seem to have ended up in IT!!

orald · Post by **orald** » 24 Oct 2008 11:31

I have to say though, I'm more into anthropology and paleontology(yea, I knew I was messing it up, just wanted to give the aproximate sound of the word) than archeology. Something about humans puts me a bit off.

Purge · Post by **Purge** » 24 Oct 2008 13:52

There are tons of archaeological sites in your neck of the woods.

Tleilax Master B · Post by **Tleilax Master B** » 24 Oct 2008 13:59

orald wrote:I have to say though, I'm more into anthropology and paleontology(yea, I knew I was messing it up, just wanted to give the aproximate sound of the word) than archeology. Something about humans puts me a bit off.

Then you definately don't want to do anthropology (of which archaeology is one branch, the others are cultural, physical and linguistics)--anthropology is "the science of humans."

orald · Post by **orald** » 25 Oct 2008 00:55

I know, I mean more the part with humanids than modern *icky* humans.

And why, Purge, I had no idea there were archeological sites in the holy-land.

Now, I think there's one just beneath that mosque in Jerusalem...lets blow it up!

Post by **Omphalos** » 25 Oct 2008 01:08

Freakzilla wrote:I think I'm going to give it all up, move to Canada and start a pot farm.

I can't tell you how many times I considered ditching law school and moving to Van Nuys to start an Asian porn studio.

inhuien · Post by **inhuien** » 25 Oct 2008 07:27

^^^You need QC?

Bijaz · Post by **Bijaz** » 26 Oct 2008 07:35

Non-fiction ghost writer.

Rakis · Post by **Rakis** » 26 Oct 2008 21:29

Bijaz wrote:Non-fiction ghost writer.

Spooky !

and so is your avatar...

ARCH · Post by **ARCH** » 07 Nov 2008 08:27

Omphalos wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I think I'm going to give it all up, move to Canada and start a pot farm.
I can't tell you how many times I considered ditching law school and moving to Van Nuys to start an Asian porn studio.

oh, man me too!

but i've actually ditched it so now all i have to do is get the moey and asian porn studio meet your new owner.
wait.
why am i not laughing?
i'm not realy going to do it...
Jesus that would shut up everyone with the' throwing away a golden future for skaky historian&sociologist misery-life'

Muahahahhaha
to hell with those golddigers.
man,never felt so blessed not to be male in my life.
feel very osrry for the poor bastards putting a ring on those fingers.

anywy i can't belive my crazy-stupid ideas actualy sing in other ppl's heads.
now i can breathe much easier knowing i'm not the only unnormal person around.

thanks, omphalos.

Lundse · Post by **Lundse** » 07 Nov 2008 12:38

Philosopher - waiting for the paycheck from all the deep thinking I have been doing on the bus stops lately...

Frybread · Post by **Frybread** » 07 Nov 2008 17:02

Very poor journalist.